Pacific County News

A sheriff's deputy who spotted a vehicle that allegedly was involved in a kidnap and robbery in Pacific County paved the way for the capture of three wanted men by SWAT officers.

Clark County sheriff's deputies today arrested three men accused of kidnapping, robbery and assault in Pacific County, Wash., on Monday.

OCEAN PARK, Pacific County - Authorities say a young motorist repeatedly sped through shore birds at Ocean Park, killing dozens of them.

An estimated 20,000 marijuana plants were seized from an undisclosed location in a forested part of Pacific County Wednesday.

If pot was legal, pot would be cheap, and taxing it would bring little revenue. Wrong and wrong.

One of the biggest marijuana grows in Western Washington has been found in Pacific County.

A Willapa Bay oyster farm that wants to keep its operation chemical-free has won the right to control invasive salt marsh grass without using herbicides.

Oysters' failure to reproduce will lead workers like Northern Oyster Co.'s Gildardo Mendoza to collect far more of their product from a state "oyster preserve" in Willapa Bay.

The Coast Guard this morning rescued six Oregon National Guard soldiers whose vessel had capsized on a training mission about two miles off the mouth of the Columbia River near Ilwaco, Pacific County.

One of the three men charged after a Bainbridge Island Police Department drug investigation led officers to Port Townsend has been identified as the chief financial officer for the Olympic Area Agency on Aging, which serves elderly in both Jefferson and Clallam counties.

There wasn't much to do in South Bend, so with a wrongful death suit being heard in town, we headed for the courthouse.

It was inevitable. Directors of the Timberland Regional Library system have announced plans to cut costs and reduce library hours starting June 1. The reductions in library services are not in retaliation for the loss of the library system's ballot proposition in February.

Legislators from Washington's 20th District said they were cautiously optimistic when initial budget reports showed no closing date for Green Hill School in Chehalis.

The oyster industry is worth millions to Washington state. To protect the oysters, growers use pesticides.

Ex-Aberdeen High school coach sentenced Brad Goings, the Aberdeen High School teacher accused of sending sexual texts to three students and having sexual contact with one of them, was sentenced to eight months in jail Friday in Grays Harbor County Superior Court, according to The Daily World of Aberdeen.

A Grayland woman who drugged her boyfriend and dismembered his remains has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Guidance from Gov. Chris Gregoire's Office of Financial Management has given new hope to local officials scrambling to stop the potential closing of the Green Hill School juvenile detention facility in Chehalis.

A man who lined up the employees of a Kelso credit union and pepper-sprayed them in the face during a robbery was sentenced to more than 36 years in prison.

Three terrible accidents in one day, which killed two people and left one in critical condition, has prompted the state patrol to remind motorcycle riders about staying safe.

Cuts in the state capital budget are threatening funding for preservation and parks projects in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties, a nature group told The Daily World of Aberdeen.